Star Treatment
Does prominence change the questions? Every guest, plotted: their public prominence (rated 1–10 by an LLM, methodology below) against the host pushback they met, measured from every diarized word of their episodes.
An aggregate AI reading of public interviews: pushback per exchange, plotted against guest prominence. It describes questioning patterns across the whole catalogue, not any single guest, and every point opens to its episode. full disclaimer →
dot size = rated episodes · gold line = average per prominence level · every dot links to the person
All guests, by prominence
| Guest | Prominence | Host pushback | Guest pushback | Eps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eric Ries Founder & CEO, Long-Term Stock Exchange | 8 | 3 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Garry Tan President & CEO, Y Combinator | 8 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Brian Chesky Co-founder and CEO, Airbnb | 8 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Seth Godin Author, Speaker, and Teacher, Seth's Blog | 8 | 4 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Tim Ferriss Host, The Tim Ferriss Show | 8 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Joe Gebbia Founder, Samara | 7 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Steve Huffman Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Reddit | 7 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Neil Patel Co-Founder, NP Digital | 7 | 3.5 | 3.5/10 | 2 |
| Elad Gil Founder, Gil Capital | 7 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Drew Houston Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Dropbox | 7 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Wade Foster Co-founder & CEO, Zapier | 6 | 2 | 1/10 | 3 |
| Jessica Livingston Co-founder, Y Combinator | 6 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Noah Kagan Founder & CEO, AppSumo | 6 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Mark Suster Managing Partner, Upfront Ventures | 6 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Alex Lieberman Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Morning Brew | 5 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Rob Walling General Partner & Co-founder, TinySeed | 5 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Jordan Harbinger Host and Founder, The Jordan Harbinger Show | 5 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Pat Walls Founder, Starter Story | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Cameron Herold Founder, COO Alliance | 4 | 2.5 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Ryan Carson Founder & CEO, Untangle | 4 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Nat Eliason Program Director of Founders School, Alpha School | 4 | 4 | 1/10 | 1 |
| David Shim Co-Founder and CEO, Read AI | 4 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Sam Ovens Co-Founder and CEO, Skool | 4 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Shane Mac Co-founder and CEO, XMTP Labs | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dan Shipper Co-Founder and CEO, Every | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ben Tossell Founder, Ben's Bites | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Anirudh Singla Founder & CEO, Pepper | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ryan Allis Founder and CEO, SaasRise | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mikael Yang Co-Founder and CEO, Manychat | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Josh Mohrer | 3 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Jesse Pujji Founder and CEO, Gateway X | 3 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nevo David Founder, Postiz | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Pavel Dolezal CEO & Co-founder, Keboola | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jermaine Griggs Founder & CEO, Hear and Play Music | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jon Cheney Founder & CEO, GenAIPI | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ethan Smith CEO and Founder, Graphite | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Joe Apfelbaum CEO and Founder, evyAI | 2 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Arman Hazarkhani | 2 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Rob Howard Founder & CEO, Innovating with AI | 2 | 4 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Evgeny Matze Co-founder & CEO, Rezora | 1 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Helen Hastings Founder & CEO, Quanta | 1 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tarun Thummala | 1 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Ricardo Vice Santos Founder and CEO, DreamStories | 1 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Ben Cera Founder and CEO, Polsia | 1 | 6 | 3/10 | 2 |
host and guest pushback: scored 0-10 per topic segment by an LLM with a published rubric over the diarized transcript; an episode’s number is the peak-weighted p75 · prominence: rated 1–10 by an LLM from the person's public profile · full method on /methodology.